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- aember, on 12/28/2008, -39/+247There are no longer "good" or "bad" sides in this. BOTH sides are guilty of bigotry, attempted genocide, and destabilization of the civilized world. Actions speak for themselves. Israel's extreme response may be born of chronic frustration with attacks but it is not "only-self-defense". This action goes too far for that & the world is not blind.
Iran is acting (irrationally, as usual) to further divide & destabilize. Anyone can see that this can only worsen the situation for all "defenseless women, children and people in Gaza" and in Israel. It's as much hypocrisy as the israeli claim to "self-defense" right now. I am so saddened for the good & peace-loving people of these nations, who are the real victims & are utterly unrepresented by their leadership. - gbudavid, on 12/28/2008, -98/+226And the Jewish world's pious people are obliged to defend the defenseless women,children and people of Israel...
Kind of a stalemate... - HOWDOYOUKNOW, on 12/28/2008, -19/+130
Why didn't the supreme leader call off the attacks on Israel before things came to this?? If he gave one whit about Muslims as he claims, he would have been calling for a cease fire long ago. The supreme leader is trying to get more and more people killed by calling for more people to get involved, instead of calling for all violence to end. He is no moral leader! He is a fraud! - inactive, on 12/29/2008, -51/+150Maybe Jews around the world can teach Israeli lobbyists in America to not finance a 60 year Apartheid.
- Panzwhore, on 12/28/2008, -41/+124hardly defenseless...
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -26/+101Throwing rocks???? OMG send in the choppers!!!!!!!!!!!
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -6/+69Maybe the USA should not have overthrown the democratically elected government back in 1953.
- BassMastr, on 12/28/2008, -17/+78Why is it Iran always orders others or proxy groups to do their fighting? You never hear any of these Arab leaders crying out for their people to give the Palistinians jobs or food...
- EMFK, on 12/28/2008, -88/+146Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei can take his decree, shove up his butt, and rotate it.
- norman619, on 12/29/2008, -43/+98freehunter:
WOW you are pretty clueless and quite the douche-bag. The Palestinians have a homeland and it's in Jordan. The Palestinians harassing Israel are the ones who tried to violently overthrow the king of Jordan. The King's army slaughtered them and they were kicked out of the country for causing problems. Funny how the king's army killed in one shot more Arabs than Israel has ever killed yet they don't bitch about that. They were welcomed by the people of Beirut and as thanks they turned Beirut into a warzone for a long time. You are aware of this right? You are also aware of the fact that Jordan is 80% Palestinian right? The Arab nations have an annual conference and at this conference the king of Jordan stated the expelled Palestinians harassing Israel are welcome back home IF they cut the ***** and accept the current government like the majority of their fellow Palestinians. Remember that country is approx 80% Palestinian. The Arab world does not give a ***** about these people. They are just paws used by other Muslim countries like Iran and Syria to attack Israel because they know they'd lose in a real military confrontation. Israel took the disputed lands AFTER it was involved in the 6 day war where 3 Arab nations Egypt, Jordan, and Syria tried to gang up on them and were handed they asses. You are such a tool. Educate yourself on the history of the region. I find that most people like you are pretty ignorant on this subject and tend to speak from your asses. - inactive, on 12/29/2008, -34/+86Here's how to defend the helpless men, women and children in Gaza. Get the cowardly Hamas to stop hiding among them.
- MacParrot, on 12/29/2008, -14/+64Isn't it a point that no matter what Israel does, no matter what treaties they sign, no matter how many settlements they close down or territory they give back, they keep getting attacked. The attackers deliberately put their OWN people in harms way, attacking from schools and apartment buildings and anywhere else where they can blend in to keep from getting targeted. And when Israel DOES strike back we get lots of pictures of devastated areas with civilian deaths that could have been avoided if ALL sides would keep their word.
No innocent parties (Israel included) but don't pretend that many of those deaths were directly because Hamas and other radical Islamic groups put their own people in harm's way. - Flyman360, on 12/29/2008, -13/+60This violence can be prevented from escalating by respecting Palestine’s right to exist equal to Israel’s.
Hamas wants to destroy Israel. Fatah is willing to co-exist with Israel. A compromise for a civil Palestine-Israel existence could be for Hamas to concede power to Fatah, and for Israel to respect the Green Line as it was prior to 1967.
Do Hamas and Israel not want to end the senseless killing of Palestinian civilians? Does Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei not want to prevent the senseless spilling of human blood? Is this not compatible with the manners and practices of the Prophet? - WordsnCollision, on 12/28/2008, -39/+85"defenceless" except for hundreds of rockets.
- DarkShroud, on 12/28/2008, -119/+163Maybe Muslims around the world can teach the Palestinians not to sent their defenseless children to throw rocks at the Israelis soldiers. Let alone sending them by the border walls with realistic looking toy guns.
- rockstar1o9, on 12/29/2008, -8/+49The problem with DEFENDING is that both sides think the only way to DEFEND themselves is by attacking.
Some extremist doucebags launch a couple mortars into Israel and Isreal obviously they can't build a giant bubble to block them. So the Israeli response is to launch attacks into Palestine to "wipe out the terrorists." In Palestine, someone's child, or mother, or husband, or someone gets caught into the Israeli attack and obviously they're going to be pissed about the loss of their loved one but their only option for fighting back involves strapping on a suicide bomb-vest which of course sets off another round of air strikes.
WHEN WILL PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ATTACKS THAT HAVE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE OF HARMING CIVILIANS AND THAT CIVILIAN CASUALTY (not religion) IS THE MOST THE SUREFIRE WAY OF RENEWING THE CYCLE OF HATE??!!
Has no one seen Pablo Picasso's Guernica?? - TheCamino, on 12/29/2008, -7/+46
The Arabs thought that in '67.
- BrettFromTibet, on 12/29/2008, -40/+74Hamas = radical terrorists dictators.. and not real Palestinian leaders
- lilamae, on 12/29/2008, -8/+41"How can this war be prevented from escalating?"
The Palestinians might kick Hamas out of Palestine for a start. - petemorley, on 12/29/2008, -13/+46Quick! Alert the Suicide Jews!
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -17/+49So one Israeli death = Two hundred and eighty seven Palestinian deaths?
- andy9590, on 12/29/2008, -10/+42Iran was a beautiful country once. Too bad it's governed by brainless extremists now.
- Cancerous, on 12/29/2008, -10/+42Okay, digg me down if you must... but the world's Jews vs the world's Muslims? Not a stalemate.
- playuhh, on 12/29/2008, -2/+32How bout a worldwide stand against extremism in all forms?
OH WAIT no one's with me on that one. - esherleshek, on 12/29/2008, -14/+44This article takes a story which is quite skewed in favour of Iran and completely skewes it in favour of Isreal. I didn't realise the source was an Isreali news site until the statement at the end stating
"Of the some 270 Palestinians killed, most were members of the Gazan security forces" as if it was a justification. Firstly this is just an assertion, it doesn't say anywhere how they intend to back up this figure. And even if it were true, the isreali's are supposed to be targetting hamas millitants not the Gaza security forces.
""defenceless" except for hundreds of rockets." - I would say even hundreds of rockets is still pretty defenseless in comparison to tanks airstrikes and snipers.
"Hamas = radical terrorists dictators.. and not real Palestinian leaders" - whether you like them or not (I don't) they were voted in January 2006. You can't say "have an election" and then get annoyed when people vote for your worst nightmare.
From this it looks like I am a palestinian sympathiser. I am....kinda, but not because I agree more with their point of view - this is a conflict over land gone religious and you can't resolve a religious war, it isn't based on logic. Isreal are not to blame, but Palestine definately aren't.
The main problem with this conflict is that it is ridiculously biased in Isreals favour; they have far more money and millitary might than palestine and it means they are ending up bullying palestine and not being very careful about it. If Palestine had an airforce and tanks, I'm sure they would use them in a similar manner, but they don't they have suicide bombers. I am not trying to suggest that suicide bombers are legitimate - they really aren't, but don't try to suggest that Isreal has the moral high ground simply because it's mass murder comes from a more high tech approach.
The people really to blame are our governments (Britain and America mainly). We were the people who originally stole the land from Palestine to create Isreal (in some people's living memory) so it isnt' suprising that the Palestinians are a little pissed off to start off with. Then we give Israel money and turn a blind eye when they encroach on Palestines borders suggesting that they have some right to the land. This should be a fairly even sided conflict, but they reason there is so much one-sidedness is because we endorse the barbaric acts of Israel and condemn the equal barbaric acts of Palestine. I say let them sort it out themselves, we are the reason why there will never be a resolution of any kind.
If this guy should be urging anyone to do anything he should be urging Gorden Brown and Barak Obama (oh, that felt really good not having to mention monkey boy) to encourage more diplomatic measures and stop getting so actively involved. - Lst01, on 12/29/2008, -6/+35"We spoke to them and told them 'Please, we ask you not to end the cease-fire. Let it continue,'" [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas said during a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. "We want to protect the Gaza Strip. We don't want it to be destroyed."
Abbas called on Hamas to renew the cease-fire with Israel to avoid further bloodshed in Gaza.
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Asked who was to blame for the dire situation in Gaza, the [Egyptian] foreign minister replied: "Ask the party that controls Gaza."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JP ... - MacParrot, on 12/29/2008, -5/+33And you rarely will. The Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, Saudi Arabians, Lebanese radical groups (certainly not all the people living in that area, just the ones with a voice) are quite happy to let the Palestinians bleed for them.
- pintomp3, on 12/29/2008, -3/+28"You really think this is a religious war? Wow." at the heart of the conflict is a country founded on biblical prophecy.
- dogstylee, on 12/29/2008, -10/+35" the Islamic world's pious people are obliged to defend the defenseless women,"
A Muslim talking about women's rights....... - ABadPerson, on 12/29/2008, -18/+43Israel don't have anti rockets like they do in missile command...
- Flyman360, on 12/28/2008, -16/+40“defend the defenseless women, children and people in Gaza in any way possible. Whoever is killed in this legitimate defense is considered a martyr”
I hope that’s not a call for the killing more defenseless women and children. That would be un-Islamic.
Hamas' charter calling for the destruction of the State of Israel is not compatible with Israel’s existence.
How can this war be prevented from escalating? - AllHereTruth, on 12/29/2008, -21/+42The difference between Israel and Palestine in the current Conflict:
Israel has the backing of the Western World, including the USA...The differences end there.
I said it. You were thinking it.
P.S. Religion is the basis of the entire Middle East 'Conflict' - So. Yea. - fandyboy, on 12/29/2008, -2/+23More self serving rhetoric, this is purely for domestic consumption, he doesn't give a ***** about the Palestinians.
- lccat, on 12/28/2008, -17/+38I suspect it wouldn't be his first time.
- jcharak58, on 12/29/2008, -17/+38Well the Arabs of Gaza stated the cease fire was over and started shooting rockets. Then Israel responded and now Hamas complains.
The main problem is that neither CNN nor Fox News reports every time a rocket is fired from Gaza. They only report when Israel responds. If they did there would be hourly reports from the region - inactive, on 12/29/2008, -6/+27Aye. Best comment I've heard on the situation yet on Digg. Good show.
- pintomp3, on 12/29/2008, -6/+26"It always was Israel's land" the bible is not a real estate contract.
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -12/+32your right, the Jews would win.
- youbequiet, on 12/28/2008, -13/+33Dumbasses, the lot of them.
- MonkeyOverlord, on 12/29/2008, -12/+31Maybe the Muslims of the world can teach the Palestinians to turn their guns on rogue factions which start their own private wars against Israel that get the rest of the Palestinians dragged into the crossfire. Even better, why aren't there Muslim peace keepers in the Palestinian territories hunting down and killing anyone connected with Hamas if their goal really is peace?...
- honeymonster, on 12/29/2008, -14/+33I think the battle tanks, helicopter gunships and fighter aircraft that are recurrently killing Palestine civilians would disagree with that defenceless Israel statement of yours.
- pbarney, on 12/29/2008, -7/+26@rockstar1o9,
Uhhh.... Hamas intentionally puts their rocket sites in an among civilian housing, being fully aware that civilians will be killed when the retaliation comes.
Hamas is responsible for every civilian death because they they're doing it intentionally. - madfrogurt, on 12/29/2008, -4/+23Negotiations are agreed to be the eventual answer, yet I still haven't seen a single indication that even controlling all of Gaza, the West Bank and half of Jerusalem, Hamas wouldn't continue launching mortars and rockets at Israel until every Israeli was killed. The six month Gaza ceasefire before this outbreak of violence was a step towards peaceful autonomy, with a full withdrawal by Israeli forces from the area allowing Hamas to set the tone. And what did they do? They allowed ineffective mortar fire and rockets to stream from the territory and refused to renew the cease fire a week ago.
It's tactless to say that a group asked for violence, but I don't see any other explanation. They're given autonomy over a piece of territory as a model for peace, continue to fire rockets, get a trade embargo, fire more rockets, and then fail to renew the cease fire and expect Israel to open their arms and tear down the border partitions? - TxAggie08, on 12/29/2008, -2/+20If by stolen from the US, you mean given under the table, yes.
- neko6, on 12/29/2008, -28/+46@Freehunter:
856,000 Jews left their homes in Arab countries from 1948 until the early 1970s. Some 680,000 resettled in Israel. They left behind property valued today at more than $300 billion. Jewish-owned real-estate left behind in Arab lands has been estimated at 100,000 square kilometers (four times the size of the State of Israel).
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Who stole whose land? - KMye, on 12/29/2008, -6/+24@milkls - I don't get it...would it be more acceptable for Israel just to launch sporadic, completely indiscriminate rocket attacks back in response than to set a concrete military objective and execute with full force?
- TheCamino, on 12/29/2008, -10/+27 Yeah, considering that Iran, almost weekly, gets on the blower, and tells other predominantly Christian nations in their revisionist Christianity voice, that Jesus, these days, would love them more than us.
I really, really, really love taking advice from a Islamic state that basically outlaws Christianity, and then tells the Christian world the true meaning of Christmas is fighting against the United States hegemony. They actually said, on Christmas day for the BBC, that if Jesus were here, he'd be fighting against against American imperialist aggression.
It's good to know they think that Jesus would take up arms.
It's a cold, cold reminder of their mindset, and how they ultimately want to achieve their goals. - FaithclubDotNet, on 12/29/2008, -2/+18Don't forget Congo, Darfur, Somolia, Afghanistan too.
- Gman311, on 12/29/2008, -0/+15Well, I've heard talk of the last president Mohammad Khatami who is waaayyy less conservative, might be running for the presidency again soon. Let's hope he gets in. While he may not have any new policies, at least he won't be blowing hot air like this current *****, giving the world fake reasons to hate Iran.
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -25/+40its not ethnic cleansing when Americans and Jews are doing it.
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